Staff Front End Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain high-performance Vue 3 and SSR applications.
• Optimize SSR pipelines, Node.js throughput, concurrency, memory usage, hydration cost, caching, bundle splitting, dynamic imports, and tree-shaking.
• Improve Core Web Vitals and application performance through profiling, flame graph analysis, CPU profiling, and memory analysis.
• Implement SSR/CSR rendering strategies, CDN and edge caching, asset optimization, structured data, meta tags, and pre-rendering for SEO.
• Use AI-assisted coding and agentic developer tools for implementation, refactoring, debugging, testing, documentation, and performance profiling.
• Participate in architecture discussions, technical decisions, code reviews, and engineering quality initiatives.
• Mentor mid-level and junior engineers on front-end performance and best practices.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, backend engineers, and SEO specialists across distributed teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of professional experience building modern, high-traffic web applications.
• Strong JavaScript expertise and experience with Vue.js or React.
• Experience with Node.js, particularly in server-side rendering environments.
• Proven experience optimizing performance for large-scale consumer applications.
• Hands-on experience improving Core Web Vitals and using Chrome DevTools, Lighthouse, memory profiling, and flame graph analysis.
• Deep understanding of rendering strategies, hydration, code splitting, tree-shaking, browser rendering, Virtual DOM performance, and reactivity systems.
• Experience implementing CDN, caching, and asset optimization strategies and understanding SEO implications of SSR.
• Experience building maintainable systems with automated tests.
• Professional experience with AI-assisted or AI-native engineering workflows and agentic developer tools.
• Experience collaborating effectively on remote or distributed teams across time zones.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Preferred experience in real estate, marketplaces, or high-scale consumer platforms; production Node.js performance tuning; and edge computing or CDN configuration.

Benefits

• Hybrid schedule with three days per week in the Austin, Texas or Columbus, Ohio office.